March 12
March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). There are 294 days remaining.
Events:
- 1912 - Girl Scouts founded
Births:
- 1607 - Paul Gerhardt, texter of hymns (+ 1676)
- 1896 - Sir John Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada
- 1824 - Gustav Kirchhoff, physicist, lends his name to Kirchhoff's Laws (+ 1887)
- 1863 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet (+ 1938)
- 1881 - Kemal Ataturk, founder and first president of the Turkish Republic (+ 1938)
- 1888 - Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer (+ 1950)
- 1912 - Irving Layton
- 1921 - Giovanni Agnelli, manager of Fiat
- 1922 - Jack Kerouac
- 1928 - Edward Albee, dramatist
- 1946 - Liza Minnelli, singer and actress
- 1948 - James Taylor
- 1957 - Steve Harris, musician. See Iron Maiden.
Deaths:
- 1937 - Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer
- 1944 - Werner Drechsler, of U-118, hanged by fellow prisoners of war for supplying his American captors with much information and helping to interrogate other German POWs. His executioners would in turn be hanged by the Americans in the last mass execution in the United States.
- 1955 - Charlie Parker
- 1998 - Beatrice Wood, artist/ceramist
- 2001 - Morton Downey, Jr., television personality
- 2001 - Robert Ludlum, author of spy novels
Holidays and observances:
- Ancient Latvia - Gregoru Diena observed
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
March 11 - March 13 - February 12 - April 12 - more historical anniversaries